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GILMAN MOULTON, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 68,305, dated August 27, 1867.

BILL-HOLDER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i

Be it known thatLGILMANMOULTOri, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Pocket Bill-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following,

taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufiicient to enable those skilled in; the art to practise it.

This invention relates to and consists in, first, certain modifications of such bill-holders as are used by collectors and others, having provision for turning down a part of one cover thereof, so as toiobtain convenient access to the headings of the bills or other papers therein contained; second, the-combination with the holder of one or more pockets sui'tedto the reception of papers and other articles.

Figure 1 shows in front elevation one of my improved holders.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same; and

FigureB is a cross-section, taken on the line 2 z. r

The bill-holder part proper is preferab y made, as is common, of two suitable pieces of binders board at, the front one of which is separated transversely into two parts of unequal length, the upper part being the shorter, and being hingedto the lower part, so that it may be turned back, as represented in red lines in fig. 2, to disclose the headings of the papers represented by c. The hinges uniting said parts of the cover a are made up of the metallic clasping-pieces d and the rod e. The spring which returns the short part of the cover to a closed position-is a coiled spring, wound'around the rod e, so connected with the two parts of the cover a as to tend to keep them in line with each other. To provide for the equal and parallel separation of the two covers a and b, to receive and clamp between them bills or other papers, three elastic hands are provided, extending entirely across the cover a, two of them, ff, being attached at the right to the cover ,a, and at the left to the cover I), while the middle one, y, is attached at the right to the cov'erb, and at the left, by a catch, it, to the cover a. When the clasp k is disconnected from the cover a, then said cover is free to be'swu'ng open (as seen in red lines in fig; 3) on the'pieces as hinges, this rendering very easythe placing in and the removal of papers from the bill-holdeiu' To the back cover 6 of the hill-holder are attached pockets z' j, which have at protecting flap, k, so-that the whole device serves the purpose of a common pocket-hoolgas well as that of a bill-holder. 7

Prior to my invention the shut flap of the cover a of ordinary hill-holders had no other connection with the mainpart of said covcr than that afforded by the cloth or leather covering the surface and as one cover was united to the other by elastic bands lcxtending entirely around both, all papers had to be insertcdin the holder by being pushed endwise between the covers thereof. The only spring employed-to keep the flap of'tho cover a in positionwas one of the elastic bands employed to hold both covers together, and, there being no pockets in combination with such holder, the device served but one purpose.

To the inner surface of the flap k may be applied a calendar, or a table ofrevcnue stamps, or a railroad time-table, or other matters to which it is of importance or convenience to have a ready reference.

I claim the hinged-and spring connection ofthe two parts of a bill-holder cover, substantially as described.

Also, in combination with thetwo covers a and b of a bill-holder, of pockets and a flap, 10, substantially as described. Y

GILMAN MOULTON.

Witnesses:

J. B. Onoser, F. GonLn; 

